Louise Tree
The Elemental Detectives
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Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy
A sleeping sickness has fallen across London, and the city’s elementals – spirits of Air, Water, Fire and Earth – worry that they will ...Read Review
Until the Road Ends
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Beau, a tired and hungry street dog, is saved from the wheels of a lorry by Peggy, who persuades her parents, her brother ...Read Review
Blackbeard’s Treasure
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AdventureChildren/Young AdultNautical
In 1718, eleven-year-old Abigail lives a cosseted, if rather lonely, life as a plantation owner’s daughter in the Caribbean. Secretly, her best friend ...Read Review
Leeward (Nightingale & Courtney, 1)
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At the decisive moment in the ferocious Battle of Aboukir Bay in 1798, Captain Hiram Nightingale is on the burning deck of his ship. ...Read Review
The Tale of Truthwater Lake
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In the too-hot, climate-changed summer of 2032, Polly and her brother are packed off to a favourite aunt who lives by an artificial lake, ...Read Review
Dawnlands
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This third book in the Fairmile series returns us to the heart of the Reekie family via the enjoyable villainess, Livia da Ricci, ...Read Review
The Aerialists
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Twelve-year-old Laura begs on the Paris streets in spring 1891. Husband-and-wife aerialists—Ena, and French aeronaut, Auguste Gaudron—take an interest in this American ...Read Review
Resist
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Inspired by the teenage years of Audrey Hepburn, this story is set in the Nazi-occupied town of Velp in the Netherlands. Under a ...Read Review
Rosie Raja: Churchill’s Spy
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In 1941, eleven-year-old Rosie is a Muslim princess growing up amidst the Indian struggle for independence from British imperial rule. When her mother dies, ...Read Review
The Attic Child
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Inspired by a 19th-century photograph of Ndugu M’Hali, this novel quests through colonial genocide and exploitation to tell the fictional life of ...Read Review
